Today brings more cooking lessons, like I need them! Well actually there are some of you that will be glad I did, Phad Thai was on todays schedule, along with fish cakes, tom yam soup (hot and sour with prawns), green curry, chicken salad and a water chestnut desert which is much nicer than it sounds. We switched cooking stations today and Kev got a decent burner, I however nearly set alight to my hands twice, thank god for asbestos fingers! We started out with a tour of thai ingredients, which herbs are the best to use and what to use as alternatives. We started out with the Tom Yam, Kev's favourite. It's blisteringly hot, uses a copious amount of birds eye chilli but it's fragrant and refreshing at the same time. The rest of the
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